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Stocks, John Ellerton (1822-1854)
Date Updated: 19 April 2013
Herbarium
Natural History Museum (BM)
Collection
Plant Collectors
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Contributor
Natural History Museum (BM)
First name(s)
John Ellerton
Last name
Stocks
Initials
J.E.
Life Dates
1822 - 1854
Collecting Dates
1842 - 1853
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Algae
Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
B, BM, BON, BR, BSD, CAL, CGE, CN, DBN, DD, E, G, GOET, K, L, LE, LIV, MANCH, MPU, MW, NA, NY, P, PC, SING, STU, U, W, WAR (currently WARMS), YK
Countries
Indian region: Pakistan, IndiaEurope: United Kingdom
Associate(s)
East India Company (1600-1873)(employee)Hooker, Joseph Dalton (1817-1911)(specimens to)Law, John Sutherland (1810-1885)(co-collector)Lindley, John (1799-1865)(student)Royle, John Forbes (1798-1858)(specimens to)
Biography
Sometimes referred to as Ellerton Stocks, he was born in Cottingham near Hull and educated at Sydenham College, where he competed for a prize in botany for the matriculation examination of the University of London and was narrowly beaten by Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895). He completed his training as a doctor and was employed on the medical staff of the East India Company in Bombay (1847-). Stocks was briefly Acting Conservator of Forests and Superintendent of the Botanic Gardens in Bombay. Material from the Indian subontinent is sometimes listed as 'Stocks et al.', which refers to J.D. Hooker's Herbarium Indiae orientalis. This included specimens from a number of collectors who collected separately and not together as in some sources; Stocks collected from the Malabar coast of India for this series. He later agreed to take part in the Somali expedition of his friend Richard F. Burton (1821-1890) but died suddenly at his home in Cottingham at the age of 32. The genus Ellertonia Wight in the Apocynaceae was named in his honour.
References
Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 617; Jackson, B.D., Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew (1901): 62; Kent, D.H. & Allen, D.E., Brit. Irish Herb. (1984): 251; Vegter, H.I., Index Herb. Coll. S (1986): 960;
Date Updated: 19 April 2013
Herbarium
Natural History Museum (BM)
Collection
Plant Collectors
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Contributor
Natural History Museum (BM)
First name(s)
John Ellerton
Last name
Stocks
Initials
J.E.
Life Dates
1822 - 1854
Collecting Dates
1842 - 1853
Specification
Plant collector
Groups collected
Algae
Spermatophytes
Organisation(s)
B, BM, BON, BR, BSD, CAL, CGE, CN, DBN, DD, E, G, GOET, K, L, LE, LIV, MANCH, MPU, MW, NA, NY, P, PC, SING, STU, U, W, WAR (currently WARMS), YK
Countries
Indian region: Pakistan, IndiaEurope: United Kingdom
Associate(s)
East India Company (1600-1873)(employee)Hooker, Joseph Dalton (1817-1911)(specimens to)Law, John Sutherland (1810-1885)(co-collector)Lindley, John (1799-1865)(student)Royle, John Forbes (1798-1858)(specimens to)
Biography
Sometimes referred to as Ellerton Stocks, he was born in Cottingham near Hull and educated at Sydenham College, where he competed for a prize in botany for the matriculation examination of the University of London and was narrowly beaten by Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895). He completed his training as a doctor and was employed on the medical staff of the East India Company in Bombay (1847-). Stocks was briefly Acting Conservator of Forests and Superintendent of the Botanic Gardens in Bombay. Material from the Indian subontinent is sometimes listed as 'Stocks et al.', which refers to J.D. Hooker's Herbarium Indiae orientalis. This included specimens from a number of collectors who collected separately and not together as in some sources; Stocks collected from the Malabar coast of India for this series. He later agreed to take part in the Somali expedition of his friend Richard F. Burton (1821-1890) but died suddenly at his home in Cottingham at the age of 32. The genus Ellertonia Wight in the Apocynaceae was named in his honour.
References
Brummitt, R.K. & Powell, C.E., Authors Pl. Names (1992): 617; Jackson, B.D., Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew (1901): 62; Kent, D.H. & Allen, D.E., Brit. Irish Herb. (1984): 251; Vegter, H.I., Index Herb. Coll. S (1986): 960;
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